This presumed first fall female DICKCISSEL graced our feeders here at the store all week long.

An abbreviated, busy week nonetheless yielded a few observations of note.

• 11-12 SANDHILL CRANES, Mayall Road, Gray, 9/9 (with Saturday Morning Birdwalk group).

• 2 truant Glossy Ibis, 9 Northern Pintails, 1-2 American Wigeon (first of fall locally), 4 Pectoral Sandpipers, etc, Eastern Road Trail, Scarborough Marsh, 9/9 (with Lindsay Strout).

• 1 first fall female DICKCISSEL, feeders here at the store 9/10 (pm through at least the afternoon of 9/13. See photo above.

• 1 Red Crossbill, Wharton Point, Brunswick, 9/13 (Type 12 fide Matt Young).

• 2 Red-necked Grebes and 1 Red-breasted Merganser (both first migrants of fall), Simpson’s Point, Brunswick, 9/13.

• 2 ad. with 1 juv Common Tern, Sabattus Pond, Sabattus, 9/14. Late and unusual here, especially with dependent juvenile in tow.

Of course, we go out of town just before the potential for the birding storm of the century!